{"id":9882,"date":"2024-02-15T04:57:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-halts-foreign-funding-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T04:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:27:29","slug":"house-speaker-mike-johnson-halts-foreign-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-halts-foreign-funding-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson Halts Foreign Funding Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put a stop to the Senate\u2019s $95 billion foreign aid package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican-led House will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most Republican senators and does nothing to secure our own border,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for Washington to start showing some love for Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s a good day to point this out,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe need to listen to the American people and their needs and take action, and that\u2019s why House leadership will continue to govern with Americans\u2019 interests at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two Senate Republicans voted alongside their Democrat colleagues to pass the foreign aid package. The final vote was 70-29.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING \u2013 DEAD ON ARRIVAL: Speaker Mike Johnson kills Senate Foreign Aid Bill, says, It &#8220;does nothing to secure our own border,&#8221; says on Valentine&#8217;s Day, it&#8217;s time for Washington to start showing some love to the American people. WATCH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HgxECvk5ub\">pic.twitter.com\/HgxECvk5ub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simon Ateba (@simonateba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonateba\/status\/1757829492846772310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Prior to the Senate\u2019s vote on the foreign aid package, Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/speaker-johnson-statement-on-senates-failure-to-address-the-most-critical-aspect-of-national-security-supplemental-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released a statement<\/a> criticizing the bill for failing to include funds for the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border. The House acted ten months ago to help enact transformative policy change by passing the Secure Our Border Act, and since then, including today, the Senate has failed to meet the moment,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate did the right thing last week by rejecting the Ukraine-Taiwan-Gaza-Israel-Immigration legislation due to its insufficient border provisions, and it should have gone back to the drawing board to amend the current bill to include real border security provisions that would actually help end the ongoing catastrophe,\u201d he continued. \u201cInstead, the Senate\u2019s foreign aid bill is silent on the most pressing issue facing our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America\u2019s own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world. It is what the American people demand and deserve. Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate\u2019s status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-halts-foreign-funding-bill\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put a stop to the Senate\u2019s $95 billion foreign aid package. \u201cThe Republican-led House will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most Republican senators and does nothing to secure our own border,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for Washington to start showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}